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I struggled with VLANS too, especially since for a while there were two methods and only one allowed hardware acceleration but it wasn’t clear enough to me which.

Everything else is pretty good though, especially the firewall which is powerful and actually quite logical once you understand how it works.

Nevertheless I’m on UniFi kit now and it’s 1000x easier for most things you need. Firewall setup is worse though.
 
alex24 said:
Everything else is pretty good though, especially the firewall which is powerful and actually quite logical once you understand how it works.
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The firewall is a raw beast, no frills. I've recently moved my home setup over onto pfsense as I needed something more "segmented" although I have been looking into "jump to chain" as I think I can get the view I want from that and then I can re-utilise my 10Gb CHR license
 
What’s new in 7.19.3 (2025-Jul-03 14:23):


  • bridge - allow IPv6 FastPath when dhcp-snooping is enabled;
  • iot - LoRa LNS stability improvement;
  • lte - AT modems, fixed typos in commands sent to modem when APN with authentication is used (AT+CGAUTH; AT$QCPDPP);
  • lte - R11e-LTE and R11e-LTE6, fixed possible crash on device unexpected removal or during RouterOS shutdown;
  • mpls - improved stability when handling VPLS packets;
  • radius - fixed RADIUS client section becoming unresponsive when RadSec is configured, but server is not responding;
  • radius - fixed wrong RadSec port number in logs;
  • radius - properly verify certificate when RadSec is used;
  • sfp - added sfp-power-class and sfp-max-power monitor values for QSFP;
  • supout - added IPv6 NAT section;
  • switch - fixed ACL rules with “redirect-to-cpu” (introduced in v7.19.2);
  • switch - fixed bonding issues after switch reset (introduced in v7.18);
  • switch - fixed port blocking with spanning tree on EN7523 switch (introduced in v7.19);
  • swos - changed firmware file location (URL) for software update checks;
  • system - reduced RouterOS ARM package size;
  • winbox - show/hide corresponding fields when switching RADIUS client mode between RadSec and UDP;
 
Moved back to CHR again. The internet feels so much snappier on Tik. I think my pfsense wasn’t quite right or pfblocker was slowing things down but can say with confidence tik plus npm is doing everything I had before with pf.
Wish there were pretty graphs lol
 
Ad_Augendae said:
I tried out Openwrt the other day just for giggles, I felt so blind to data that Tik gives.
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Aye same experience with openwrt, got the Flint 3 - early firmware is terrible, the gui even in luci seems a little lacking. Ethernet speeds seems to be anything from 100mb to 2.5gb when it feels like it.

I'll ssh in later on and see if it makes any more sense, if not its back in the box.
 
I think the same thing happened with the with Flint 2 didn't it. It's taken Mikrotik about 2 years to settle all the silly problems with WiFi 6 and I still see problems with some old equipment not being able to connect with FT enabled. Sorry state of affairs. At least Openwrt seem to move a bit faster.
 
What’s new in 7.19.4 (2025-Jul-28 13:00):

  • arm - improved system stability when processing encrypted traffic;
  • arm64 - increased maximum number of CPU cores to 128;
  • ethernet - improved ethernet stability when handling invalid packets on Alpine CPUs;
  • iot - fixed incorrectly set LoRa channel plan behavior;
  • ipv6 - fixed policy routing;
  • leds - fixed issues after changing “dark-mode” configuration (introduced in v7.19);
  • license - updated URL for “libcroco” package in the license notice;
  • log - output PoE-Out LLDP negotiation to poe,info topic;
  • net - ensure packet sockets from containers do not disable RouterOS fastpath/fasttrack;
  • netinstall-cli - recognize RouterOS v6 system package;
  • port - give “gps” prefix for R11e-LR8G and R11e-LR9G GPS ports;
  • ptp - allow priority1 value of 0 (improves stability when receiving announce messages with priority1 set to 0);
  • routing-filter - fixed route origin matcher;
  • system - improved system stability for CCR2216 device;
 
Soon come!
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The LMP 5G looks like a good fit for my needs but 16MB of flash is ridiculous, also it's not available
 
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What this one, hmm the ATL 5G R16 has 32MB flash same CPU


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Caged said:
The LMP 5G looks like a good fit for my needs but 16MB of flash is ridiculous, also it's not available
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It's the 'Tik way. Create a really decent product then gimp it with flash, I mean what 5p more for double? RouterOS is sparse but give yourself headroom guys!
 
Hmmmm

*) routerboot - fixed load of OpenWrt kernel on NAND-less boards with MT762x, IPQ40xx, QCA955x and QCA953x CPUs ("/system routerboard upgrade" required);

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What's new in 7.20rc2 (2025-Sep-11 08:17):

*) bgp - fixed extended nexthop select (introduced in v7.20beta2);
*) bridge - improved system stability with IGMP snooping;
*) certificate - fixed ACME certificate usage after renewal;
*) certificate - trust built-in root certificate authority store after configuration reset;
*) container - added option to execute commands inside a container using "/container/shell cmd= user=" (additional fixes);
*) container - fixed shell exit causing freeze;
*) firewall - reorganized firewall connection tracking table values and make them persistent between IPv4 and IPv6 (additional fixes);
*) ike2 - improved system stability;
*) l3hw - fixed switch port l3-hw-offloading export (introduced in v7.20beta8);
*) lte - fixed modem recovery on unexpected modem reboot for Chateau 5G and Chateau 5G R16 (additional fixes);
*) routerboot - fixed load of OpenWrt kernel on NAND-less boards with MT762x, IPQ40xx, QCA955x and QCA953x CPUs ("/system routerboard upgrade" required);
*) snmp - fixed v3 response when returning error (introduced in v7.20rc1);
*) switch - fixed possible bonding remove issue (introduced in v7.20beta8);
*) switch - fixed possible switch initialization issue for L009 device (introduced in v7.20beta9);
*) switch - hide cpu-flow-control on irrelevant devices (additional fixes);
*) switch - rework ethernet counters for 98DXxxxx, 98PX1012 and CRS1xx/2xx switches (add tx-drop-queueX-byte/packet, tx-drop-byte/packet, tx-queueX-byte to /in/eth and updated GUI);
*) traffic-flow - added support for IPv6 packet sampling;
*) traffic-flow - fixed flow reports when using IPv6 and packet sampling (introduced in v7.18);
*) wifi - added tr069 support for wifi interfaces (additional fixes);
 
Ad_Augendae said:
Hmmmm

*) routerboot - fixed load of OpenWrt kernel on NAND-less boards with MT762x, IPQ40xx, QCA955x and QCA953x CPUs ("/system routerboard upgrade" required);

Code: 
What's new in 7.20rc2 (2025-Sep-11 08:17):

*) bgp - fixed extended nexthop select (introduced in v7.20beta2);
*) bridge - improved system stability with IGMP snooping;
*) certificate - fixed ACME certificate usage after renewal;
*) certificate - trust built-in root certificate authority store after configuration reset;
*) container - added option to execute commands inside a container using "/container/shell cmd= user=" (additional fixes);
*) container - fixed shell exit causing freeze;
*) firewall - reorganized firewall connection tracking table values and make them persistent between IPv4 and IPv6 (additional fixes);
*) ike2 - improved system stability;
*) l3hw - fixed switch port l3-hw-offloading export (introduced in v7.20beta8);
*) lte - fixed modem recovery on unexpected modem reboot for Chateau 5G and Chateau 5G R16 (additional fixes);
*) routerboot - fixed load of OpenWrt kernel on NAND-less boards with MT762x, IPQ40xx, QCA955x and QCA953x CPUs ("/system routerboard upgrade" required);
*) snmp - fixed v3 response when returning error (introduced in v7.20rc1);
*) switch - fixed possible bonding remove issue (introduced in v7.20beta8);
*) switch - fixed possible switch initialization issue for L009 device (introduced in v7.20beta9);
*) switch - hide cpu-flow-control on irrelevant devices (additional fixes);
*) switch - rework ethernet counters for 98DXxxxx, 98PX1012 and CRS1xx/2xx switches (add tx-drop-queueX-byte/packet, tx-drop-byte/packet, tx-queueX-byte to /in/eth and updated GUI);
*) traffic-flow - added support for IPv6 packet sampling;
*) traffic-flow - fixed flow reports when using IPv6 and packet sampling (introduced in v7.18);
*) wifi - added tr069 support for wifi interfaces (additional fixes);
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Just took a quick look as I have been sticking the stable release track, appears 7.20 fixes a heap of problems with 7.19 - that being said I have no problems at present (at least none I am aware of)
 
$anch3z said:
Just took a quick look as I have been sticking the stable release track, appears 7.20 fixes a heap of problems with 7.19 - that being said I have no problems at present (at least none I am aware of)
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I got bored and tried their Nightly for a while just for giggles, what a mess!. But for a home environment I'm now using RC2 which is pretty stable WifI wise, well better than RC1.
They seem to have stopped releasing so often now as well which is helping stability, I just hope it's for the new generation WiFi 7 products which they need to get right imo.
I've fully moved over to Linux as well now so winbox 4 being native is a big plus for me.
 
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